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East Asia
The Difference between the Korean and the Japanese Perspectives on “Dokdo”
The arguments about Dokdo issue between the Japanese and the Korean people seem to be gradually increasing with the Senkaku(“Diaoyu” in Chinese) territorial issue. I think that there is the fundamental difference between the Japanese and the Korean Perspectives on Dokdo issue and to understand it is very important to…
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South East Asia
Muslims Driven To Live In Refugee Camp As Result Of Ethnic Violence In Myanmar
A Muslim woman refugee, fled from ethnic violence, cuddles a baby at Thechaung refugee camp in Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Survivors of ethnic clashes in western Myanmar lashed out at the government for failing to prevent violence between Muslims and Buddhists that has displaced more…
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East Asia
UN Secretary General Gives Speech At South Korean Parliament
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon delivers a speech at the South Korea National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. <AP Photo/Lee Jin-man>
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West Asia
Sewage Water Flows Directly Into Sea In Mawasi Area, Gaza Strip
Palestinian children play in sewage water flowing into the sea in the Mawasi area, Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Oct. 29, 2012. <Xinhua/Khaled Omar>
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West Asia
Samaritans Offer Prayer During Pilgrimage For Holy Day Of Tabernacles On Mt. Gerizim
A Samaritan boy, wrapped in a prayer shawl, attends the pilgrimage for the holy day of the Tabernacles or Sukkot on the top of Mount Gerizim near the West Bank city of Nablus, Oct. 29, 2012. A Samaritan man helps his son to read during the pilgrimage for the holy…
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Society
New Yorkers Under Siege Of Superstorm Sandy
Medical workers assist a patient into an ambulance during an evacuation of New York University’s Tisch Hospital, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York. The New York City hospital is moving out more than 200 patients after its backup generator failed when the power was knocked out by a superstorm.…
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East Asia
Chinese Soldiers Rescue 26 Vietnamese When Typhoon Pounded Bordering Areas Of Two Nations
A Chinese soldier hands over a Vietnamese baby he rescued from the flood to his mother at a waterlogged market near the China-Vietnam border river Beilun in Dongxing, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on Oct. 29, 2012. Typhoon Son-Tinh has brought strong wind and downpours to Guangxi since Sunday,…
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Asian rivals in US
Washington should be more active judge, arbiter Many Koreans might have felt quite uncomfortable listening to a series of news stories from the United States over the weekend. In New York and New Jersey, some Japanese ultra-rightists ― who else could it be? ― perpetrated acts of vandalism, insulting the…
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World
Rome has come to you
A recent Korea Times editorial advised American-retail store Costco to recall the old saying, “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” Sage advice, sure, but its expiration date has come and gone. That old saying needs to be updated as, “Rome has come to you.” “When in Rome, do…
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If election is about women, what are they gaining?
Hey, women! The election is suddenly about you. Sort of. This was supposed to be the election about job creation (although we’re still waiting for specifics). But in recent days it is about President Barack Obama losing women voters to Gov. Mitt Romney. It’s about Republican candidates for the Senate…
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